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72nd Year Mo. 263 xd Morning! If Wednesday. July 23, 1980 5 Section? 44 Pages 15 Cents
mammmmmmmm . anmaoMaMMa
National guardsmen
arming Boone County
for fight against heat
By Leslie Boolittle
Mtssoarian staff writer
Dressed in. battle fatigues and driving
Army jeeps. National Guardsmen are
going door- io- do- or in Boone County, of-fering
relief from the heat with a person-al
tonch.
Volunteer Guardsmen, working
through the county Division c Family
Services, are delivering fans, installing
air conditioners and checking on persons
potentially endangered by the heat.
" The Guard has helped enormously."
said Jerry Brewer, director of Family
Services. ' Their presence has helped to
reassure people. They know that some-one
cares, so they aren't as frightened."
Opening the door to a porch- loa- d of sol-diers,
however, is not exactly reassuring
to everyone.
Guardsmen report a particularly inter-esting
reaction from 15- - to 20- year-- old
males.
Wide- eye- d with fright, panic- stricke- n
young men ding to their mothers and
babble about " being on the way to the
post office." Draft registration for 19- an- d
20- year-- old males began Monday.
" People are really appreciative once
they understand why we're there," said
Sgt. Johnny Tarrant.
Although the men have done everything
from calling for emergency medical care
to passing out Gatorade, they say most
people -- just need someone to talk to."
By going door- to- doe- r, the Guardsmen
are helping the people who need it' most
those unaware of the assistance avail-able
to them.
Area social service agency directors
Sen. Tbomas Eagleton surveys Missouri
crop damage. Story, Page 12A.
met Tuesday to coordinate, the National
Guard's relief efforts with existing pro-grams.
Of primary concern was Missouri's
desperate lack of money for the pro-gram.
Federal relief money, allocated
just last week to ease heat- relate- d suffer-ing,
is gone.
Need, however, is not.
Saturday afternoon, Veloria Bennett
became Columbia's first heat- relate- d fa-tality.
Police found the 75- year--
oid Co-lumbia
woman in her home, stricken by
theheat.
The windows of her house were shut
Qghtly and the doors securely locked.
Mrs. Bennett was pronounced" dead at
Boone County Hospital a victim of heat
stroke.
The temperature outside was 109 de-grees
F 1 43 Cj when her body was found.
-- a----- nv------
--- wwaw--
Missouri National Guard Sgts. Ron Naeger, above right, and John
Tarrant help Boone County residents battle the heat. They are among
a group of 128th Field Artillery Division volunteers going door- to- do- or
delivering fans; installing air conditioners, providing heat- rek- ef
information and offering reassurance to the needy.
Since July 1, 28 people have been hospi-talized
in Columbia for heat- relate- d ill-nesses,
39 others were treated and re-leased.
The Public Health Department says
the figures do not reflect the true gravity
of the situation because they don't in-clude
people treated for chronic illnesses
aggravated by the heat, nor those seen
by their personal physicians.
With relief funds depleted, utility bills
present the greatest danger.
" People are turning off fans and not us-ing
airconditioners in fear of- hig- h elec-tricity
bills, Brewer said.
" It is most important that the state do
something about expanding the Utilieare
program," he said. " Just as heating bills
were paid in the winter, funds must be
available 5or cooling this summer."
Noting that Utilieare is limited to the
elderly. Mary Margaret Miller, of Hu-man
Development, said. " It's the babies
that suffer the most in this weather:
we've got to help the children."
" We've simply got to have more mon-ey,"
said Lydia Coad. director of the Co-lumbia
Visiting Nurses Association.
Gov. Joseph Teasdale and Lt. Gov. Wi-lliam
Phelps met with While House aides
Tuesday to request additional federal
funding" for Missouri, which leads tr.-- i na-tion
in heat- relate- d deaths andsuffenng.
" We are anticipating some aid will be
forthcoming." Teasdale said. " They are
deciding whether a presidential disaster
declaration is the route to go. or some
other way."
" I think we are in the forefront of the
states under consideration for help."
Teasdale said. Missouri so far has re-ceived
only Sl- 2-
5 million in aid.
Christian home education: Fight continues in Iowa
By Terry Raffensperger
Missoorian staff writer
DES MOINES, Iowa The growing
fundamentalist Christian movement
toward " home education," using ready--
made Christian study materials and
supervision by parents or other non- certifi- ed
teachers, has run into a legal
roadblock in Iowa.
Unlike Missouri, which only has vol-untary
accreditation procedures for re-ligious
schools, Iowa requires church --
schools to meet the same accreditation
standards as public schools.
In both states, there has been an in-crease
of these religious schools, many
of which receive study and testing
materials from Accelerated Christian
Education Inc. in Dallas, Texas, and
Christian liberty Academy in Pros-pect
Heights, HL
The Texas firm specializes in setting
up separate schools while most of the
parents using the Illinois material
teach their children in their own
homes.
The state of Missouri has a hands- of- f
policy toward monitoring teaching
standards at religious schools. Accred-itation
checks are made only if the
schools ask for them, and no penalties
are provided for even if the school fails
to pass.
Iowa has adopted a " much different
philosophy which has one notable ex-ception.
The state's compulsory educa-tion
law requires parents to send their
children to public schools unless they
can satisfy the state Department of
Education that they are providing
equivalent private instruction from a
certified teacher. The state also has
mandatory curricuiuna standards for
all schools.
The Iowa law has been challenged in
Insight
the courts twice this year by parents
who wanted to provide Christian edu-cations
for their children at home,
rather than send them to public
schools. The courts upheld the accredi-tation
law in both cases.
Mardelle Larson, a 38- year--
old moth-er
from Mason City, served part of a
30- da- y jail sentence for refusing to
send her children to school.
Until last fall, her sons, Ricky, 14,
and John, 10, attended the Mason City
public schools. Concerned about then- religio- us
training, Ms. Larson enrolled
them in a home- stud- y program offered
by the fundamentalist Christian Liber-ty
Academy.
" To send a child to a system of edu-cation
which does not center around
the Bible and which does not teach
faith in Jesus Christ is to endanger the
eternal destiny of that child and to
bring God's judgment upon one's self
as well" Ms. Larson said in a court af-fidavit.
Using texts furnished by the acade-my,
including " McGuffey's Readers,"
a series of primers popular in the 19th
century, the Larson boys studied arith-metic,
reading, science, history, spell-ing,
and English from a religious per-spective.
Ms. Larson, who only has a high
school education and who is not certi-fied
to teach, testified she guided her
children in the use of the materials.
She said a friend who holds a Missouri
teaching certificate in special and el-ementary
education gave her advice.
According to jurors Agnes Garner
and Helen Danger, the fact that Ms.
Larson was not a certified teacher was
the key consideration in determining
her guflL
Ms. Gamer also said the jury con-cluded
the home- stud- y program was
not equivalent to public school instruc-tion.
The correspondence courses ad-equately
teach the basics of reading,
writing and arithmetic, but not the oth-er
subjects, she said.
The Larson boys testified they have
learned more this school year by
. studying at home than they " did last
year in public school, where Ricky fin-ished
seventh grade and John com-pleted
third grade- Howeve- r,
Greg Stefanich, a Univer-sity
of Northern Iowa professor who
testified for the prosecution, said the
boys were receiving an inferior educ-tion
and might be limited in the kinds
of careers for which they could qualify.
Stefanich said it is " essential" teach-ers
be certified because meeting certi
fication requirements improves their
effectiveness and screens out unquali-fied
people. Continued participation in
the home- stud- y program of the Chris-tian
Liberty Academy will leave the
students inadequately prepared for al-most
any career requiring college edu-cation,
Stefanich said.
" Two or tnree years of this and
they'll have a tremendously difficult
time making the transition into socie-ty,
choosing a career based on their in-terests
and needs," he said.
Stefanich said the home- stud- y pro-gram
does not adequately teach con-cepts
in such areas as science and hist-ory'-
The correspondence courses do
not provide for experiments, Sims,
field trips, illustrations and other
methods of helping them grasp abs- -
( See IOWA, Page 12A)
After three month of negotiations
Police board to weigh labor plan
By Andrew Cavenagh
Missonriaa staff writer
The Columbia Police Officers Asso-ciation
board wDl vote today whether
to accept a tentative agreement
reached by police and city negotiators
Tuesday.
The agreement, if then accepted and
ratified by association members this
weekend, would end three months of
labor negotiations with the city. A set-tlement
would mean the last of the
city's four employee groups bad come
to terms.
President of the association, Bill
. Haws, and Mike Sanford, the city's
chief negotiator, reached a ssttlement
Tuesday afternoon. A nine- ho- ur ses-sion
with a federal mediator Monday
had brought the two sides together on
nine cf the 10 issues at stake.
Both Haws and Sanford declined to
discuss the details of the settlement.
They said it would be inappropriate be-fore
the agreement was ratified- - Haws
did say, however, a compromise had
. been reached on pay steps, the one is-sue
outstanding from Monday's ses-sion.
If the police association's board ac-cepts
the agreement, it will go to an as-sociation
membership vote for formal
ratification. Haws said ballots would
go out Friday at the earliest, and the
result would not be known until Mon-day.
Sanfcrd said he would not need to
take the terms tc the City Council for
ratification, as they were within the
guidelines the council had laid down.
Despite the accord, Haws said all
four members of the police negotiating
team thought the terms inadequate.
" The only reason we agreed on it was
that we felt we couldn't do any better
with fact finding," be added.
In fact finding, both parties formally
would have presented their case to a
professional fact finder who then
would submit a recommendation to the
City Council. Even then, the council
would not be obliged to accept the 6nd- ing- s.
The main issue in the dispute was the
October wage increase. Although
Haws would not discuss details, he said
the sides bad agreed on an 8.5 percent
increase in wages and benefits. The
city previously had offered an 8 per-cent
wage increase, and a $ 117 in-crease
in annual benefits.
Other issues included training bo-nuses,
the use of reserve officers and
vacation benefits.
Billy asked
to arrange
Libyan help
- New York Tones
WASHINGTON The White House disclosed Tuesday that Zbig- nie- w
Brzezinski, President Carter's national security adviser, had
asked Billy Carter to set up a meeting with a representative of Li-bya
last November to ask for Libyan assistance in releasing the
American hostages held in Iran.
In March of this year, the White House said further. Brzezir. ski
learned from " an intelligence report" the president's brother was
attempting to assist an oil company in obtaining oil from Libya. He
then telephoned Billy Carter to advise him that he should not en-gage
m any activity that could cause embarrassment to the admin-istration."
the White House said.
The contacts between Billy Carter and Brzezinski described
in a two- pag- e statement released late Tuesday afternoon took
olace at the same time the Justice Department was pursuing ar. in-vestigation
of whether Billy Carter had violated the law by acting
as an unregistered foreign agent for Libya. The White House as-serted
Tuesdav that, at a previously disclosed meeting between Bil-ly
Carter and Brzezinski June 11, B'illy Carter had asked if he could
disclose to federal investigators their prior meeting in November
with the Libyan representative to discuss Iran.
The June II meeting with Brzezinski took place shortly after Bil-ly
Carter had informed the Justice Department for the first time he
had received money from the Libyan government. However, the
White House again said Tuesday Billy Carter did not mention the
payments to Brzezinski or to Lloyd N. Cutler, the White House coun-sel
with whom he also met.
In a separate statement Tuesday, President Carter for the first
time directly criticized his brother for his activities in connection
with Libya.
' I do not believe it is appropriate for a close relative of the presi-dent
to undertake any assignment on behalf of a foreign govern-ment."
Carter stated." " Facts relating to the existence of any such
relationship should be fully and publicly disclosed."
The president noted further that, based on his brother's registra-tion
as a foreign agent July 14. " he is not presently engaged in any
activities on behalf of Libya, and has no activities on its behalf un-der
consideration "
President Carter repeated his earlier assertion that he had
" urged" his brother to register and " make a full disclosure" when
the two spoke. The White House said Tuesday they spoke July 1. but
that it was not until July 14 that the president learned his brother
had. in fact, been the recipient of 5220,000 in payments from the gov-ernment
of Libya.
The unusual White House statements Tuesday constituted tne
administration's first lengthy, formal comments on the disclosures
of recent days about Billy Carter's meetings or discussions with
presidential aides about Libya.
The disclosure that Billy Carter was a paid agent of the Libyan
government, combined with subsequent questions about his con-tacts
with the White House about Libya, have caused political em-barrassment
to the Carter administration, with several Republican
members of Congress calling for a congressional investigation.
Until Tuesday. President Carter and Brzezinski have main-tained
Billy Carter's relations with Libyan officials which date
back to September 1978 have been his own affair and entirely m- depende- ntcf
the White House or the State Department.
The Carter administration's relations with the Libyan govern-ment
have been strained because of the sacking of the American
Embassy in Tripoli last December, and because of Libya's avowea
support of anti- Isra- el terrorist activities.
The White House, for example, has continued to block the trans-fer
of eight American jet transports purchased by Libya in 1973. In-telligence
sources meanwhile reported Libya has been engaging in
a major drive to gain political influence in the United States so that
the C- 1- 30 transport planes could be released.
Last September, the Justice Department said it was conducting
an investigation of a possible bribery plot aimed at securing Carter
J administration approval of the aircraft transfer.
Index In $$ wn
Classified 8B, 9B, 10B, UB .
Comics , 6C CgM& li'V
Opinion 4A
People 1B, 2B Nooa Read n' Digest, Lunch and
Sports 6A, 7A, 8A reading ( supply own lunch), Colum- -
Stocks 9A bia Public Library, Broadway and
Movies 11A Garth. Free. Ages 8-- 12.
Television 6C 7 pjn. Concert, University Brass
Band, steps of University's Jesse
Hall, Francis Quadrangle. Free.
7: 39 pmx. Demonstration, " Weight
Training for Women," University
Women's Center, Gentry HaE.
8 p. m. Theater, " The Robber S Bridegroom," Maplewood Barn
Theater, Nifong Park- - Adults $ 2,- seni- or
citizens and students $ i.
8: 15 pan. Theater, " Toys in the
Attic," UMC SumjnerRepertory
Theatre, University Fine ArtsBuild- in- g.
Tickets $ 3. J

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72nd Year Mo. 263 xd Morning! If Wednesday. July 23, 1980 5 Section? 44 Pages 15 Cents
mammmmmmmm . anmaoMaMMa
National guardsmen
arming Boone County
for fight against heat
By Leslie Boolittle
Mtssoarian staff writer
Dressed in. battle fatigues and driving
Army jeeps. National Guardsmen are
going door- io- do- or in Boone County, of-fering
relief from the heat with a person-al
tonch.
Volunteer Guardsmen, working
through the county Division c Family
Services, are delivering fans, installing
air conditioners and checking on persons
potentially endangered by the heat.
" The Guard has helped enormously."
said Jerry Brewer, director of Family
Services. ' Their presence has helped to
reassure people. They know that some-one
cares, so they aren't as frightened."
Opening the door to a porch- loa- d of sol-diers,
however, is not exactly reassuring
to everyone.
Guardsmen report a particularly inter-esting
reaction from 15- - to 20- year-- old
males.
Wide- eye- d with fright, panic- stricke- n
young men ding to their mothers and
babble about " being on the way to the
post office." Draft registration for 19- an- d
20- year-- old males began Monday.
" People are really appreciative once
they understand why we're there," said
Sgt. Johnny Tarrant.
Although the men have done everything
from calling for emergency medical care
to passing out Gatorade, they say most
people -- just need someone to talk to."
By going door- to- doe- r, the Guardsmen
are helping the people who need it' most
those unaware of the assistance avail-able
to them.
Area social service agency directors
Sen. Tbomas Eagleton surveys Missouri
crop damage. Story, Page 12A.
met Tuesday to coordinate, the National
Guard's relief efforts with existing pro-grams.
Of primary concern was Missouri's
desperate lack of money for the pro-gram.
Federal relief money, allocated
just last week to ease heat- relate- d suffer-ing,
is gone.
Need, however, is not.
Saturday afternoon, Veloria Bennett
became Columbia's first heat- relate- d fa-tality.
Police found the 75- year--
oid Co-lumbia
woman in her home, stricken by
theheat.
The windows of her house were shut
Qghtly and the doors securely locked.
Mrs. Bennett was pronounced" dead at
Boone County Hospital a victim of heat
stroke.
The temperature outside was 109 de-grees
F 1 43 Cj when her body was found.
-- a----- nv------
--- wwaw--
Missouri National Guard Sgts. Ron Naeger, above right, and John
Tarrant help Boone County residents battle the heat. They are among
a group of 128th Field Artillery Division volunteers going door- to- do- or
delivering fans; installing air conditioners, providing heat- rek- ef
information and offering reassurance to the needy.
Since July 1, 28 people have been hospi-talized
in Columbia for heat- relate- d ill-nesses,
39 others were treated and re-leased.
The Public Health Department says
the figures do not reflect the true gravity
of the situation because they don't in-clude
people treated for chronic illnesses
aggravated by the heat, nor those seen
by their personal physicians.
With relief funds depleted, utility bills
present the greatest danger.
" People are turning off fans and not us-ing
airconditioners in fear of- hig- h elec-tricity
bills, Brewer said.
" It is most important that the state do
something about expanding the Utilieare
program," he said. " Just as heating bills
were paid in the winter, funds must be
available 5or cooling this summer."
Noting that Utilieare is limited to the
elderly. Mary Margaret Miller, of Hu-man
Development, said. " It's the babies
that suffer the most in this weather:
we've got to help the children."
" We've simply got to have more mon-ey,"
said Lydia Coad. director of the Co-lumbia
Visiting Nurses Association.
Gov. Joseph Teasdale and Lt. Gov. Wi-lliam
Phelps met with While House aides
Tuesday to request additional federal
funding" for Missouri, which leads tr.-- i na-tion
in heat- relate- d deaths andsuffenng.
" We are anticipating some aid will be
forthcoming." Teasdale said. " They are
deciding whether a presidential disaster
declaration is the route to go. or some
other way."
" I think we are in the forefront of the
states under consideration for help."
Teasdale said. Missouri so far has re-ceived
only Sl- 2-
5 million in aid.
Christian home education: Fight continues in Iowa
By Terry Raffensperger
Missoorian staff writer
DES MOINES, Iowa The growing
fundamentalist Christian movement
toward " home education," using ready--
made Christian study materials and
supervision by parents or other non- certifi- ed
teachers, has run into a legal
roadblock in Iowa.
Unlike Missouri, which only has vol-untary
accreditation procedures for re-ligious
schools, Iowa requires church --
schools to meet the same accreditation
standards as public schools.
In both states, there has been an in-crease
of these religious schools, many
of which receive study and testing
materials from Accelerated Christian
Education Inc. in Dallas, Texas, and
Christian liberty Academy in Pros-pect
Heights, HL
The Texas firm specializes in setting
up separate schools while most of the
parents using the Illinois material
teach their children in their own
homes.
The state of Missouri has a hands- of- f
policy toward monitoring teaching
standards at religious schools. Accred-itation
checks are made only if the
schools ask for them, and no penalties
are provided for even if the school fails
to pass.
Iowa has adopted a " much different
philosophy which has one notable ex-ception.
The state's compulsory educa-tion
law requires parents to send their
children to public schools unless they
can satisfy the state Department of
Education that they are providing
equivalent private instruction from a
certified teacher. The state also has
mandatory curricuiuna standards for
all schools.
The Iowa law has been challenged in
Insight
the courts twice this year by parents
who wanted to provide Christian edu-cations
for their children at home,
rather than send them to public
schools. The courts upheld the accredi-tation
law in both cases.
Mardelle Larson, a 38- year--
old moth-er
from Mason City, served part of a
30- da- y jail sentence for refusing to
send her children to school.
Until last fall, her sons, Ricky, 14,
and John, 10, attended the Mason City
public schools. Concerned about then- religio- us
training, Ms. Larson enrolled
them in a home- stud- y program offered
by the fundamentalist Christian Liber-ty
Academy.
" To send a child to a system of edu-cation
which does not center around
the Bible and which does not teach
faith in Jesus Christ is to endanger the
eternal destiny of that child and to
bring God's judgment upon one's self
as well" Ms. Larson said in a court af-fidavit.
Using texts furnished by the acade-my,
including " McGuffey's Readers,"
a series of primers popular in the 19th
century, the Larson boys studied arith-metic,
reading, science, history, spell-ing,
and English from a religious per-spective.
Ms. Larson, who only has a high
school education and who is not certi-fied
to teach, testified she guided her
children in the use of the materials.
She said a friend who holds a Missouri
teaching certificate in special and el-ementary
education gave her advice.
According to jurors Agnes Garner
and Helen Danger, the fact that Ms.
Larson was not a certified teacher was
the key consideration in determining
her guflL
Ms. Gamer also said the jury con-cluded
the home- stud- y program was
not equivalent to public school instruc-tion.
The correspondence courses ad-equately
teach the basics of reading,
writing and arithmetic, but not the oth-er
subjects, she said.
The Larson boys testified they have
learned more this school year by
. studying at home than they " did last
year in public school, where Ricky fin-ished
seventh grade and John com-pleted
third grade- Howeve- r,
Greg Stefanich, a Univer-sity
of Northern Iowa professor who
testified for the prosecution, said the
boys were receiving an inferior educ-tion
and might be limited in the kinds
of careers for which they could qualify.
Stefanich said it is " essential" teach-ers
be certified because meeting certi
fication requirements improves their
effectiveness and screens out unquali-fied
people. Continued participation in
the home- stud- y program of the Chris-tian
Liberty Academy will leave the
students inadequately prepared for al-most
any career requiring college edu-cation,
Stefanich said.
" Two or tnree years of this and
they'll have a tremendously difficult
time making the transition into socie-ty,
choosing a career based on their in-terests
and needs," he said.
Stefanich said the home- stud- y pro-gram
does not adequately teach con-cepts
in such areas as science and hist-ory'-
The correspondence courses do
not provide for experiments, Sims,
field trips, illustrations and other
methods of helping them grasp abs- -
( See IOWA, Page 12A)
After three month of negotiations
Police board to weigh labor plan
By Andrew Cavenagh
Missonriaa staff writer
The Columbia Police Officers Asso-ciation
board wDl vote today whether
to accept a tentative agreement
reached by police and city negotiators
Tuesday.
The agreement, if then accepted and
ratified by association members this
weekend, would end three months of
labor negotiations with the city. A set-tlement
would mean the last of the
city's four employee groups bad come
to terms.
President of the association, Bill
. Haws, and Mike Sanford, the city's
chief negotiator, reached a ssttlement
Tuesday afternoon. A nine- ho- ur ses-sion
with a federal mediator Monday
had brought the two sides together on
nine cf the 10 issues at stake.
Both Haws and Sanford declined to
discuss the details of the settlement.
They said it would be inappropriate be-fore
the agreement was ratified- - Haws
did say, however, a compromise had
. been reached on pay steps, the one is-sue
outstanding from Monday's ses-sion.
If the police association's board ac-cepts
the agreement, it will go to an as-sociation
membership vote for formal
ratification. Haws said ballots would
go out Friday at the earliest, and the
result would not be known until Mon-day.
Sanfcrd said he would not need to
take the terms tc the City Council for
ratification, as they were within the
guidelines the council had laid down.
Despite the accord, Haws said all
four members of the police negotiating
team thought the terms inadequate.
" The only reason we agreed on it was
that we felt we couldn't do any better
with fact finding," be added.
In fact finding, both parties formally
would have presented their case to a
professional fact finder who then
would submit a recommendation to the
City Council. Even then, the council
would not be obliged to accept the 6nd- ing- s.
The main issue in the dispute was the
October wage increase. Although
Haws would not discuss details, he said
the sides bad agreed on an 8.5 percent
increase in wages and benefits. The
city previously had offered an 8 per-cent
wage increase, and a $ 117 in-crease
in annual benefits.
Other issues included training bo-nuses,
the use of reserve officers and
vacation benefits.
Billy asked
to arrange
Libyan help
- New York Tones
WASHINGTON The White House disclosed Tuesday that Zbig- nie- w
Brzezinski, President Carter's national security adviser, had
asked Billy Carter to set up a meeting with a representative of Li-bya
last November to ask for Libyan assistance in releasing the
American hostages held in Iran.
In March of this year, the White House said further. Brzezir. ski
learned from " an intelligence report" the president's brother was
attempting to assist an oil company in obtaining oil from Libya. He
then telephoned Billy Carter to advise him that he should not en-gage
m any activity that could cause embarrassment to the admin-istration."
the White House said.
The contacts between Billy Carter and Brzezinski described
in a two- pag- e statement released late Tuesday afternoon took
olace at the same time the Justice Department was pursuing ar. in-vestigation
of whether Billy Carter had violated the law by acting
as an unregistered foreign agent for Libya. The White House as-serted
Tuesdav that, at a previously disclosed meeting between Bil-ly
Carter and Brzezinski June 11, B'illy Carter had asked if he could
disclose to federal investigators their prior meeting in November
with the Libyan representative to discuss Iran.
The June II meeting with Brzezinski took place shortly after Bil-ly
Carter had informed the Justice Department for the first time he
had received money from the Libyan government. However, the
White House again said Tuesday Billy Carter did not mention the
payments to Brzezinski or to Lloyd N. Cutler, the White House coun-sel
with whom he also met.
In a separate statement Tuesday, President Carter for the first
time directly criticized his brother for his activities in connection
with Libya.
' I do not believe it is appropriate for a close relative of the presi-dent
to undertake any assignment on behalf of a foreign govern-ment."
Carter stated." " Facts relating to the existence of any such
relationship should be fully and publicly disclosed."
The president noted further that, based on his brother's registra-tion
as a foreign agent July 14. " he is not presently engaged in any
activities on behalf of Libya, and has no activities on its behalf un-der
consideration "
President Carter repeated his earlier assertion that he had
" urged" his brother to register and " make a full disclosure" when
the two spoke. The White House said Tuesday they spoke July 1. but
that it was not until July 14 that the president learned his brother
had. in fact, been the recipient of 5220,000 in payments from the gov-ernment
of Libya.
The unusual White House statements Tuesday constituted tne
administration's first lengthy, formal comments on the disclosures
of recent days about Billy Carter's meetings or discussions with
presidential aides about Libya.
The disclosure that Billy Carter was a paid agent of the Libyan
government, combined with subsequent questions about his con-tacts
with the White House about Libya, have caused political em-barrassment
to the Carter administration, with several Republican
members of Congress calling for a congressional investigation.
Until Tuesday. President Carter and Brzezinski have main-tained
Billy Carter's relations with Libyan officials which date
back to September 1978 have been his own affair and entirely m- depende- ntcf
the White House or the State Department.
The Carter administration's relations with the Libyan govern-ment
have been strained because of the sacking of the American
Embassy in Tripoli last December, and because of Libya's avowea
support of anti- Isra- el terrorist activities.
The White House, for example, has continued to block the trans-fer
of eight American jet transports purchased by Libya in 1973. In-telligence
sources meanwhile reported Libya has been engaging in
a major drive to gain political influence in the United States so that
the C- 1- 30 transport planes could be released.
Last September, the Justice Department said it was conducting
an investigation of a possible bribery plot aimed at securing Carter
J administration approval of the aircraft transfer.
Index In $$ wn
Classified 8B, 9B, 10B, UB .
Comics , 6C CgM& li'V
Opinion 4A
People 1B, 2B Nooa Read n' Digest, Lunch and
Sports 6A, 7A, 8A reading ( supply own lunch), Colum- -
Stocks 9A bia Public Library, Broadway and
Movies 11A Garth. Free. Ages 8-- 12.
Television 6C 7 pjn. Concert, University Brass
Band, steps of University's Jesse
Hall, Francis Quadrangle. Free.
7: 39 pmx. Demonstration, " Weight
Training for Women," University
Women's Center, Gentry HaE.
8 p. m. Theater, " The Robber S Bridegroom," Maplewood Barn
Theater, Nifong Park- - Adults $ 2,- seni- or
citizens and students $ i.
8: 15 pan. Theater, " Toys in the
Attic," UMC SumjnerRepertory
Theatre, University Fine ArtsBuild- in- g.
Tickets $ 3. J